The Culture Recovery Fund is a grants programme issued by the UK Government as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic . The fund aims to financially support cultural organisations in England (such as theatres, museums, and music venues) which had become financially unviable as a result of national and local restrictions. It is administered by Arts Council England .
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20-472: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Architectural disambiguation pages Leighton Hall, Lancashire Leighton Hall is a historic house 0.5 miles (1 km) to the west of Yealand Conyers , Lancashire , England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building . It
30-453: The 1750s. The present house was built for Towneley in 1759–61 in Georgian style to a design by John Hird, and the woods replanted and park laid out in 1763. The couple had no children, and the estate was inherited by George's nephew John, who sold it in 1805. In 1822 the property came into the possession of Richard Gillow, the grandson of furniture manufacturer Robert Gillow , who Gothicized
40-470: The façade in 1822–25 using local white limestone . In 1870 his son, Richard Thomas Gillow, commissioned the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin to add a three-storey wing containing a billiard room below, and guest rooms above. Richard died in 1906, leaving the hall in a neglected condition and was succeeded by his grandson, Charles Richard Gillow, who died in 1923. Charles' widow continued to live at
50-529: The grants was announced on 12 October 2020. This phase totalled £257 million divided between 1,385 venues. A further announcement was made on 17 October 2020 of an additional £76 million between a further 588 organisations. The beneficiaries of this phase of the grants includes the Military Wives Choir , Somerset House , and the Puppet Theatre Barge . The second round of large grants
60-512: The hall until her own death in 1966 at the age of 96. The property then passed via her daughter Helen to her grandson, Richard Gillow Reynolds who, with his wife Susan, is the current owner. In October 2021, the building was one of 142 sites across England to receive part of a £35-million injection into the government's Culture Recovery Fund . The hall won the 2023 Sustainability Award of the Historic Houses Association . The hall
70-456: The house burnt with Hodgson's possessions confiscated. When the hall was sold at public auction in 1722 it was bought by a friend, a Mr Winkley from Preston, who allowed Hodgson to live in the partly ruined house after his eventual release from prison. The estate then came into the possession of wealthy George Towneley of Towneley Hall in Burnley , through his marriage to Hodgson's daughter Mary in
80-622: Was announced as the chair of the Culture Recovery Board, the body tasked with managing the fund. The culture recovery fund is administered by the Culture Recovery Board, which comprises 11 members appointed by the DCMS . They are: The first 135 venues to receive money from the fund were announced on 22 August 2020. This first phase included only grassroots music venues such as Birmingham's Sunflower Lounge, Brighton's Green Door Store and Manchester's Gorilla. A large group of beneficiaries of
90-706: Was featured in the 1984 ITV TV adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Dancing Men , as Ridling Thorpe Manor. This work has been attributed to Robert Roper . Culture Recovery Fund The fund was initially announced by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak in July 2020 as a "one-off investment in UK culture". Sunak announced that the fund would be valued at £1.57 billion. Damon Buffini
100-456: Was the seat of the 1642–1673 Middleton Baronetcy of Sir George Middleton, who was High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1661. He was succeeded by his grandson, George Middleton Oldfield, who died at the hall in 1708. It then passed to his son-in-law Albert Hodgson, who had married Oldfield's daughter Dorothy. Hodgson became involved in the Jacobite rising of 1715 , during which he was taken prisoner, and
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